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Stacy Fuller(February)
I am the Director of Education at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. In this role, I work with a talented team of fifteen museum educators to ensure the development, execution, and evaluation of the Amon Carter’s mission-focused educational programs and resources for various audiences. With experience as a museum registrar, in curatorial work, and designing professional development programs for educators, I have a passionate love for works of art and also accessibility—making sure that visitors of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities are able to enter, access, and engage with museum collections.

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November 04, 2009

Online Resources

In this age of electronic learning / teaching / communication, and its impact on how we interface with information on a daily basis, we are fortunate to be able to access a wide variety of online educational tools that have provided teachers and students (of all ages), with an abundance of resources.

Among those online resources is the web site, ArtsConnectEd, which is owned and operated by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center in Minnesota. The ArtsConnectEd web site provides all users with an interactive learning environment which affords the visitor the opportunity to do extensive searches for contemporary and historically significant artwork, audio and video material, links to interactive programs, educational collections, and a range of other types of information.

In addition, the site allows the user to build their own collections, encompassing text, image and video, which are then sharable either in an online format or as a printed document.

As one of the trainers, I recently developed a collection dealing with the creation of drawings through an investigatory theme approach. The collection explores a range of strategies and techniques for both coming up with concepts that can be explored in a variety of ways, as well as incorporating images, embedding video links and additional files (including powerpoints), that I had created by turning the latter into pdf documents, which in turn were able to become a part of this particular collection.

As part of the training that I provide to teachers and others interested in learning how to navigate the rich resources that are available in ArtsConnectEd, I am able to share additional information and strategies online on a monthly basis through another educational online resource, Tappedin.org.

This site provides teachers in all curriculum areas access to free online workshops and chats throughout the year.  Teachers and other interested parties meet in various areas on the online ‘campus’ for the discussions that take place in real time chat.  As the text is html enriched and the chat screens are detachable from the main window, virtual field trips are also taken as part of the sessions. An online calendar is provided to help participants plan their visits ahead of time.  Educators from all over the world take part in both the teaching and the learning.

Hope that you are able to take advantage of these online opportunities!

Kevan Nitzberg

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